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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published [July] 1984
Cover Price 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.50 GBP
Pages 52
Editing Michael Carlin; Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Notes The cover signature reads "Byrning Bright". Sale date: July 1984.

Cover Details - "The Wedding of Black Bolt and Medusa!"

Characters Colonel Bel-Dann; the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch; the Invisible Girl; Mr. Fantastic; the She-Hulk]; Inhumans [Black Bolt; Medusa]; Warlord Raksor
Genre superhero
Pencils Mark Bright? (signed)
Inks John Byrne? (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes The cover signature reads "Byrning Bright". Sale date: July 1984.
Reprinted in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2004 series) #5

1 page Mario Bros. advertisement "Mario Bros."

Characters Luigi
Synopsis Luigi is in a maze and danger makes him call out for his brother Mario.
Genre children
Letters ?; typeset
Notes Inside front cover. Comic strip ad for the Mario Bros. video game from Atari.

11 page The Fantastic Four story "Prolog: Ten Lunar Orbits Ago"

Characters Colonel Bel-Dann (Kree soldier); Empress R'klll of the Skrulls; the Supreme Intelligence; Warlord Raksor (Skrull warrior, poses as Storm); the Watcher [Uatu]; Wolverine
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne (plot); Mark Gruenwald (script); Chris Claremont (partial script, uncredited, see notes)
Pencils Mark Bright
Inks Mike Gustovich
Colors Petra Scotese
Letters Phil Felix
Notes Continues in the next story. The story follows up on events in The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #137 (September 1980). In particular, pages 2 and 3 are a new version of pages 22 and 23 of that X-Men issue, with the dialogue being largely the same (hence the Claremont script credit).
Reprinted in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2004 series) #5

28 page The Fantastic Four story "Something Old, Something New!"

Characters Colonel Bel-Dann; the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch; the Invisible Girl; Mr. Fantastic; the She-Hulk]; the Inhumans [Black Bolt; Crystal; Gorgon; Karnak; Lockjaw; Luna; Medusa; Triton]; Quicksilver; Warlord Raksor; the Watcher
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne (plot); Mark Gruenwald (script)
Pencils Mark Bright
Inks Mike Gustovich
Colors Petra Scotese
Letters Phil Felix
Notes Continued from the previous story.
Reprinted in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2004 series) #5